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Study Finds Many Discarded Hard Drives Still Contain Confidential Data |
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Storage & Destruction Business (SDB)
Retrieved 14 May 09
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A recent study, sponsored by BT and
Sims Lifecycle Services, finds that more than one third of discarded hard drives
still contain confidential data. The study was carried out by forensic computer
science labs at Longwood University, located in the United States; the
University of Glamorgan, Wales; and Edith Cowan University,
Australia.
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Top Secret Missile Data Found on Hard Drives |
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Computer hard drive sold on eBay 'had details of top
secret U.S. missile defence
system'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Mail Online
Retrieved May 7, 2009
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Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defence
system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on
eBay.
The test
launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD (Terminal High
Altitude Area Defence) ground to air missile defence system, used to shoot down
Scud missiles in Iraq.
The disk
also contained security policies, blueprints of facilities and personal
information on employees including social security numbers, belonging to
technology company Lockheed Martin - who designed and built the
system.
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Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet |
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By Jordan Robertson, Associated Press
USA Today
Retrieved March 16, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO — Getting hacked is like having your
computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do and shipping your
secrets to identity thieves.
Victims don't see where their stolen data end up. But
sometimes security researchers do, stumbling across stolen-data troves that
offer a glimpse of what identity theft looks like from criminals' perspective.
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FAA suffers massive data breach; more than 45,000 affected |
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By Mary Mosquera
Federal Computer Week
Retrieved February 12, 2009
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The Federal Aviation Administration has notified employees that one of
its computers was hacked, and the personally identifiable information
of more than 45,000 employees and retirees was stolen electronically.
All affected employees will receive individual letters to notify them
about the breach, the FAA said Feb. 9.
Two of the 48 files on the breached server contained personal
information about employees and retirees who were on the FAA’s rolls as
of the first week of February 2006, the FAA said in a statement.
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Watch out! Privacy litigation damages becoming more viable |
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Watch out! Privacy litigation damages becoming more viable
By Mark
Foley, Digital Lex: WTN News
Retrieved February 3, 2009
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A recurring problem in modern litigation is the inadvertent disclosure of
materials subject to the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product
protection. New Federal
Rule of Evidence 502 changes the rules concerning waiver of privilege in all
Federal and many State court cases, thereby reducing the risk that inadvertent
disclosures will constitute a wavier of attorney client privilege or work
product protection. But the new rule requires careful application. Important
risks remain.
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USA's trashed TVs - A Toxic Mess |
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USA's Trashed TVs, Computer Monitors Can Make Toxic Mess
By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY
Retrieved Dec 30, 2008
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SEATTLE — Hong Kong intercepted and returned 41 ship containers to U.S. ports this year because they carried tons of illegal electronics waste from the U.S., according to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department.
By turning the containers away, Hong Kong thwarted attempts by U.S. companies to dump 1.4 million pounds of broken TVs or computer monitors overseas and an estimated 82,000 pounds of lead, a known toxin, in the devices.
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